Sony Holds Talks With Liberty Digital
To Sell Stake in Game Show Network

By

John Lippman and

Anna Wilde Mathews Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 11, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

Sony Pictures Entertainment is in advanced negotiations to sell a 50% stake in its Game Show Network cable channel to Liberty Digital Inc. for about $300 million, according to people familiar with the situation.

The deal, if reached, could facilitate the cable channel's effort to become a player in the online and broadband game market. The Sony Corp. subsidiary has been struggling to establish the Game Show Network for more than five...